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Indymedia Servers Given Back

Posted by samzenpus on from the now-play-nice dept.

NW writes "According to a post on Indymedia Argentina the two Indymedia servers seized earlier by the FBI are in the process of being returned: "A Rackspace employee stated, "I was just told that the court order is being complied with and your servers in London will be online at 5pm GMT. I will pass along anymore information that becomes available and that I am allowed to." It has been verified that the returned hard-drives are the originals, but the circumstances of the seizure still remain unclear: who took them, why were they taken, and under which court order? Indymedia is not aware as to whether Rackspace is still under gag order. The hard-drives will be treated as "hacked" (compromised) and as a result there will be delays in restoring the sites that are still down."" Here's our previous coverage on this.

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  1. True Reason behind the shutdown by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard the real reason the machines were seized was because they hosted goatse.cx.

    Apparently the FBI agents decided that they, and GWB had been tricked one too many times

  2. The NSA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    probably haxxor3d the BIOS. Sam Fisher is one l33t mutherfucker. Format all you want, sweetie. Your tight little backdoor is [i]ours[/i].

    Fucking liberals...

  3. Rackspace offices dialog by suso · · Score: 4, Funny

    FBI: Bend over
    Rackspace: *whimper* ok...

  4. Re:Switzerland and Italy by Merkins · · Score: 2, Funny
    If some of them were undercover agents, their lives might be in danger for all you know.


    oooh, the NOC list


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  5. America is less safe today by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    IndyMedia is a haven for terrorists and their leftist liberal sympathizers. The FBI is doing a significant disservice to our country by releasing these servers back to these criminals and scumbags who would destroy our way of life. I hope other slashdot users will join me in writing to our congressmen to express our deep concern over this failure in our war against terror.


    Keep America Safe. Bush Cheney 2004.

  6. Re:Thing is, that might be legal by killjoe · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bah! They all look alike.

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  7. Re:Switzerland and Italy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It would be great if a police officer was taking pictures of protestors, and then a couple seconds later the police officer is surounded by fifty to a hundred people blinding him with the flash of their cameras.